<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 September 2017 at 01:08, Felix Malmenbeck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:felixm@kth.se" target="_blank">felixm@kth.se</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<p><span style="background-color:white">I also don't don't really think that reason (1) holds up, considering {wo' DevtaHjaj ghawran} is explicitly stated not to be a toast, in contrast with {wo' ghawran DevtaHjaj}.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:white">It's also worth noting that paq'batlh contains two similar sentences (one of which is repeated three times). I'm generally very suspicious towards paq'batlh, in part because it is meant to be an old and poetic text,
but mostly because we know it contains a lot of oddities.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:white">The sentences are listed here: </span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:white"><a href="http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/PaqbatlhNewRules#A_2._Verb_45suffix_7_43_jaj" target="_blank">http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/<wbr>PaqbatlhNewRules#A_2._Verb_<wbr>45suffix_7_43_jaj</a></span></p></div></blockquote></div><div>It's also worth noting that every exception has been with {-taH}, and never with {-pu'}, {-ta'}, or {-lI'}.</div><div><br></div><div>Can I say {wo' DevlI'jaj ghawran}, if I don't like him? :-)</div><div><br></div><div>(This reminds me of the bumper stickers which say "Pray for [some politician] - Psalm 109:8". That verse says "Let his days be few, and let another take his office".)</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">De'vID</div>
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